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From: "Jon Boy & T Hart" <>
Subject: Re: [LITHUANIA-L] "heart felt" data
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1993 22:04:36 -0400

Thank you Chris, You have eloquently expressed my sentiments,appreciation
and admiration for David. I gratefully Thank David for his
tolerance,patience, and knowledge. To all of those who disagree,please
kindly keep your rude thoughts and insults of the Internet. Display some
personal dignity and just sign off quietly! Terry Hart
-----Original Message-----
From: "Chris Bakunas" <>
To: <>
Date: Saturday, November 09, 2002 5:04 PM
Subject: RE: [LITHUANIA-L] "heart felt" data


>1) I have never interpreted David's information, or the way he presents it,
>as rude. In research circles, data is either useful or not, accurate or
not.
>But rude or friendly? Those terms would be a bit out of place.
>2) I have never perceived David as an elitist, academic, intellectual, or
>otherwise.
>3) I never had to pay one penny for the information shared. how can you
>boycott a free product?
>4) In my little corner of the world, the axiom we live by is "never
>criticize the free help"
>5) What's to tolerate? Hell, if anyone's doing some tolerating at this
site,
>it's David. A person writes in with a name, and wants him to trace their
>entire family tree. For him to patiently, time and time again, explain the
>history of the Polish/Lithuanian empire, the various partitions by the
>Prussians/Russians/Austrians, the fact that most Lithuanian or Baltic
>surnames are derived from Latin, Polish, Germanic, Slavic, etc., origin, or
>explain the iene,aite,yte,ute,aus,us suffixes...whew!
>6) Genealogy "pimp"? that's pretty funny.
>
>
>Chris Bakunas
>Internet Consultant
>
>Direct #303-231-2673
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>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [mailto:]
>Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 1:40 PM
>To:
>Subject: Re: [LITHUANIA-L] "heart felt" data
>
>
>I realize I'm a few days behind, but after reading David's sarcastic
>rationalization (the 'bunny in the forest' story) to eliminating manners (I
>won't go so far as to expect kindness) from his life, I must say one thing
>before I unsubscribe.
>It looks, sadly, as if David is never going to change. No matter how many
>times he recklessly insults others and then receives the negative feedback
>for it - he doesn't seem to try to improve. He just backs down for a
while,
>
>sticking to the intellectual high-ground - until the next time. Meanwhile,
>the rest of us are lulled into thinking perhaps his verbal assalts are over
>-
>until the next time.
>Why does he do this? Maybe he enjoys the chain of reactions it creates.
>Adds a little spice to the site. Ambulance-chaser mentality. I don't
know.
>What I really don't get is why so many of you tolerate it.
>David is no more than a genealogy 'pimp'. He as the knowledge, experience
>and sources, therefore he holds all the aces; he can be as mean as he
wants
>
>sure in the knowledge that you'll be back for more. You depend on him.
>Those of you who say,"Thank you David - give me more David, at whatever
cost
>
>David, throw my integrity out the window David - just give me the
>information," are his pawns. If you boycotted his incredible rudeness,
he'd
>
>have to change woldn't he - if he wanted to keep his web site?! But
you're
>
>afraid. What will we do without David?! Guess what? There's more than one
>David in the world - some of them are even nice. I'm going to find one.
> unsubscribe
>
>
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